Lawyerly Lairs: An $8 Million, Full-Floor Flat

A partner at a major law firm just acquired a beautiful prewar apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Back to the New York Times:

The estate of Elizabeth Brockman, with the Brockmans’ son, Richard Brockman, as the executor, was represented by Frosty Montgomery of Brown Harris Stevens. The buyers are Miles N. Ruthberg, a partner of Latham & Watkins, and his wife, Catherine Schreiber Ruthberg, a theater producer.

The name “Frosty” is très WASPy. Not surprisingly, she looks like someone out of a Whit Stillman film.

Miles Ruthberg is no rank-and-file Latham partner. He’s a big macher, as his firm bio suggests:

Mr. Ruthberg has been a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, global Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department, and Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation and Professional Liability Practice. He has represented a number of major companies in their most important litigation, including securities law and class actions, with a particular emphasis on accounting issues. Mr. Ruthberg has achieved highly favorable results in trial, on motion, in settlement and on appeal; he was recently named New York City’s “Lawyer of the Year” in Securities Litigation by Best Lawyers.

Ruthberg graduated summa cum laude from Yale — first in his class, in fact — and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Harvard Law Review. He then clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the D.C. Circuit, a leading feeder judge back in the day, and Justice Thurgood Marshall on SCOTUS.

Ruthberg’s wife Catherine, whom he married in 1986, is no slouch in the academic department either. As noted in their New York Times wedding announcement (of course they were in the Times), she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale. But Catherine Schreiber is best known as a film and television actress and Broadway producer. She won a Tony Award in 2012 for producing Clybourne Park (an excellent play, by the way).

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Okay, enough with the résumé porn; time for some real estate porn….

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